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NEM#84: Laura Davis Was “The Girl in the Back” (of the Student Teachers)

Here are the Student Teachers live (after Laura's departure). Here's a video someone put together for "Christmas Weather." Laura started doing video work for The Mumps: here they are. Here's the video for Blondie's "Slow Motion," and here's all of their "Angels on the Balcony."

good timing just saw Lisa Jane Persky and Richard Hell reading and in a discussion moderated by the author of ​Blondie’s Parallel Lines, wondering if Laura has seen Adam Curtis’ new doc where he criticizes Patti Smith and all for focusing more on self-expression than on the politics/economics of the times that were gutting NYC and leading to the rise of Trump and all?

No I haven’t seen that doc though I’ll look into it and I hesitate to agree with that thesis–I think the rise of Trump was caused by other factors and there were other far more powerful elements gutting NYC at that time. But I’ll check it and I’m glad you enjoyed our talk!

hi Laura thanks for the generous reply, Curtis isn’t suggesting that Patti and co. caused the gutting of NYC just that they came to embody (and sell) a kind of identity focused on self-expression rather than a commons/political orientation, in some ways Camille Paglia celebrates this kind of individualism and to this day attacks more marxist spirit of 68″ style French philo/theory, the video in question is hypernormalization availabe on the utubeshttps://thecreativeindependent.com/people/adam-curtis-on-the-dangers-of-self-expression/

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